# Problems with RubyGems **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 4, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-rubygems/150138 "2008-10-04T13:47:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![forsakensoul](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@forsakensoul](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/forsakensoul)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-rubygems/150138/1 "2008-10-04T13:47:43Z")
Hey, I’ve just bought a new asus eee pc 901 and I’m running linux on it. I’m still on the default linux which is a modified xandros linux. I compiled ruby and rubygems using the tutorial from: [http://blog.fiveruns.com/2008/3/3/compiling-ruby-rubygems-and-rails-on-ubuntu](http://blog.fiveruns.com/2008/3/3/compiling-ruby-rubygems-and-rails-on-ubuntu) The only difference that I installed gems 1.3.0. The problem is I can’t do anything with the gems. They are installed properly, I think, because I get a result out of gem -v and gem list … but when I try to install or update … well then it gets nasty: /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/digest/md5.so: /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/digest/md5.so: undefined symbol: rb\_Digest\_MD5\_Init - /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/digest/md5.so (LoadError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/digest/md5.rb:8 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem\_original\_require’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/package.rb:12 from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:27:in `gem\_original\_require’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom\_require.rb:27:in `require' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/format.rb:9 ... 14 levels... from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command_manager.rb:104:in `process\_args’ from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site\_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command\_manager.rb:75:in `run' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:39:in `run’ from /usr/local/bin/gem:24 Does anybody know how to fix this? ---
**Author:** ![forsakensoul](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@forsakensoul](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/forsakensoul)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 7:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-rubygems/150138/2 "2008-10-04T19:24:13Z")
Ilian Mitev wrote: > Hey, > > I’ve just bought a new asus eee pc 901 and I’m running linux on it. I’m Same here… 901 with the default xandros. Ruby (1.8.6-p287) built from source, gem 1.1.1, and gems (including native code) seem to work… so maybe downgrade? ---
**Author:** ![forsakensoul](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@forsakensoul](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/forsakensoul)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-rubygems/150138/3 "2008-10-09T20:53:49Z")
Eric H. wrote: > On Oct 4, 2008, at 04:46 AM, Ilian Mitev wrote: > > > because > > I get a result out of gem -v and gem list … but when I try to > > install > > or update … well then it gets nasty: > > > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/digest/md5.so: > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/digest/md5.so: undefined symbol: > > rb\_Digest\_MD5\_Init - /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/digest/md5.so > > (LoadError) > > Sounds like digest/md5 was built incorrectly. I’m not sure why that > would be. Hi Eric, we’re having a similar problem here at Boeing/Seattle on an IBM VM running SuSE SLES10 SP2 s390x. ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [s390x-linux] > gem install -p [http://www.proxy.boeing.com](http://www.proxy.boeing.com):XXXXX net-ssh /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/s390x-linux/digest/md5.so: /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/s390x-linux/digest/md5.so: undefined symbol: rb\_Digest\_MD5\_Init - /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/s390x-linux/digest/md5.so (LoadError) Is there a way to rebuilt 1.8.7 to include the correct version of md5? Or should we just downgrade? ---
**Author:** ![forsakensoul](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@forsakensoul](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/forsakensoul)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problems-with-rubygems/150138/4 "2008-10-06T23:14:25Z")
On Oct 4, 2008, at 04:46 AM, Ilian Mitev wrote: > because > I get a result out of gem -v and gem list … but when I try to > install > or update … well then it gets nasty: > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/digest/md5.so: > /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/digest/md5.so: undefined symbol: > rb\_Digest\_MD5\_Init - /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/i686-linux/digest/md5.so > (LoadError) Sounds like digest/md5 was built incorrectly. I’m not sure why that would be.